FitOKay's Journal, 26 August 2014

Slacked off on food recording, but not going to worry too much about it.

Did some early holiday baking. Made 4 pumpkin pies and 8 gluten free pumpkin cookie bars (so our boys each have one pumpkin flavored treat per pie). They freeze up nicely. Then just take a thawed pie, 2 bars and a thing of whip cream to whatever get together comes up. Since I'm working weekends and teaching homeschool the weekdays this year, plus all the normal cleaning, appointments and etc I figured I would need a pie or few ready to go in reserve this holiday season. I also already made the chocolate lollipops and gingerbread house molds (just needs assembled) a couple weeks ago. Those freeze up easy also (just chocolate bars basically).

I'm nearly done with Christmas shopping and finished the Christmas knitting yesterday for us and finished the hat sets for our annual church drive last week. Got only a few things left to get for our family- I keep track of our gifts on pinterest Christmas Gifts 2014 Pin Board) so that my husband and I can both access the lists. However, we both come from large Catholic families and are blessed to have some very good friends so we have quite a few people on our list. Got 22 gifts bought, ready to wrap and give. 7 that are partially done and just need something perishable that we'll add a bit closer to time, for obvious reasons. 2 people I still haven't a clue what to get =p and another 2 kids on my husband's side we will draw at Thanksgiving. We have a board for that on pinterest too but it's private for obvious reasons ;-) I love giving gifts and love that people actually look forward to what we get them. I aim for $10 average person cost but put a lot of thought into what we get people and watch sales/clearance very carefully. So the worth of our gifts is normally much higher. This was one of my favorite sets we put together last year. It was for my husband's mom. She loves Willow Tree and always gifting it to others but never gets herself any. I found the grandmother and grandfather set for $15 together so made a set out of them with the picture and frame-



So anyways, it's not even September but I've got holidays on the brain =p Schooling starts 2nd of Sept so I want to get as much taken care of by then as possible- after that life is going to be very action packed for a bit!

Anyways, sorry not much on topic in this journal entry- mostly holiday prep related stuff =p